Sentence examples for been gripped from inspiring English sources
noun
A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- It's good to have a firm grip when shaking hands.
Twice in recent months, I've been gripped by the almost occult power of early Glass.
MORE American couch potatoes than expected have been gripped by the World Cup.
Egypt has also been gripped by anger, grief and calls for vengeance.
Consumers and workers have been gripped, he says, by a "gizmo revolution".
After three underwhelming monsoon seasons, broad swaths of the country have been gripped by drought.
For weeks, Bangladesh had been gripped by a hartal, a nationwide general strike and "transportation blockade".
Germany has been gripped by the scandal unfolding around the neo-Nazi National Socialist Underground.
The implication was that I had been gripped by a spasm of homophobia.
Uganda, anticipating commercial production in the next few years, has itself been gripped by intense debate.
Until then, he says in the movie, he'd been gripped "by this terrible, demented logic.
